I just learned...I'm the "blogging loser"!

I just sat through a webinar on blogging 101!  OMG, I am such a dork.  I thought I was so clever, so conversational in my blogs.  I am a blogging loser!

Most people say I have trouble listening.  I am considered a constant interrupter.  However, my New Year's resolution was to be a better listener.  Boy have I screwed this up as a blogger!

You watch Oprah, the story of Julie and Julia and the Twilight lady.  They make blogging sound so easy?  Just get on your computer and the world will follow! 

Well Otho's webinar (the guy wrote two books for pete's sake, his name is Mike Moran mikemoran.com if you want to learn everything you may be doing wrong!) said it takes 6 months and diligence and alot of words I don't understand like web 2.0, setting up Google Alerts, RSS feeds, creating communities, re-tweeting, pingomatic...Hey BLOGGING IS REALLY HARD. 

So for those not reading...tell me how you like to shop online?  Do you like to go to traditional retailers?  WHo are some of your favorites?  Do you shop some retailers online and others in the store?  Do you clip coupons?  My mission in all of this is to see if I can help, communicate with you, basically be a better blogger?  How can I help instead of being a big blogging blow hard!  I'm studying hard!  I promise to be a better blogger!  I'll read your blogs, I re-tweet your blogs, I'LL LISTEN!  Sorry in advance if I stumble along the way!  But I CAN do this right with your help! 

 

Comments

[Mike Moran]

Hi, and thanks for referring to my Webinar. I doubt that you are a blogging loser--it really is easy to start a blog. It's a bit harder for your blog to help you meet your business goals (if that's why you started it).

From looking at your blog, I'd say one of the first things to do is to make it clear who you are. Let people get to know you. From your About Page, I am guessing you are named Leslie, but I am not even sure of that.

Then I would follow other folks who write about your subject and retweet and comment on their blogs, just as you said. Start with that and see how things go.

It's easy to be intimidated when someone like me rolls out loads of advice in a Webinar, but remember that I started small, too, and that I didn't do everything all at once. Take it one step at a time and you'll be fine. Good luck.

Let me know if I can ever be of any help to you.